Reading Time: 2 min Thomas Edison was famously bad at math (he said he had a “distaste” for it), but math was essential to much of the work he did. Rather than force himself to learn it better, he focused where he excelled, and hired mathematicians to assist with his work. Who built your mouse? Related, Matt Ridley has […]
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Social media is vapor
Reading Time: 2 min If you’re reading this post in 2021, there is a good chance you found this post via social media. If you’re reading this at some point later, you probably didn’t — at least not from a social post of mine. My posts about it have come and gone, just like millions of other posts every […]
100 days of blogging
Reading Time: < 1 min With this post, I’ve gone 100 days in a row with a blog post. My last run at this (starting back in December of 2016) lasted around 50 days. As I mentioned early on, I tried to shift my mindset from talking about stuff to talking about ideas, in the hopes that it wouldn’t run […]
Why Seth Godin doesn’t tweet
Reading Time: 2 min Seth Godin doesn’t use Twitter. He has a Twitter account for his blog, but it’s just for his team to share his latest posts. He’s made it clear before that he doesn’t have a problem with Twitter, and thinks some people make great use of it. In terms of his time and his focus, it’s […]
The new WordPress.com site building service
Reading Time: < 1 min A few weeks ago, WordPress.com (not to be confused with the free downloadable software at WordPress.org) announced that they were going to be offering a site building service. This has concerned a lot of folks in the industry (“they’re going to steal our business”), but I think the concern is overblown. In fact, this is […]
The WordPress Community
Reading Time: < 1 min There’s something unique about the community of people that work with WordPress, and I absolutely love it. When explaining our Meetup to people, I generally say something like “We stand up and give away all of our secrets to our competition, and they stand up and give theirs away too“. We all leave the meeting […]
Seriously, start your own blog
Reading Time: < 1 min While I’d love to see some kind of open-source, distributed social network start up, nothing is on the immediate horizon. However, we already have the tools in place to mostly do it ourselves. Here’s some thoughts about how we could make a better social network by starting our own blogs. If you need help getting […]
Write of Passage, Start your Blog
Reading Time: < 1 min I recently listened to David Perell’s full Write of Passage podcast. It’s 21 episodes, but each one is only a minute or two so you can knock out the whole thing in under an hour. He has some great insights and inspiration to get you going. He has a full “school” you can join that […]
WordPress Editorial Calendar plugin
Reading Time: 2 min I’ve not talked much about specific gadgets or plugins lately, but I’m finding tremendous value from the (free!) WordPress Editorial Calendar plugin. While I publish a new post every day on this blog, I write them in batches as I have time. As a result, I generally have 5-10 posts ready to go that are […]
Take back your content
Reading Time: 3 min As of the time of this writing, many people (primarily conservatives) are looking to leave Facebook and move their account over to Parler, the “free speech social network”. I’ve seen quite a few friends “leave” Facebook for Parler, but then they keep posting new stuff on Facebook. Interpret that how you will. Parler may or […]